Updated Wed, Aug 31, 2011 10:39 AM

Soedarmasto, 17, averaged 231.52 in his 42 games, winning 13 of 18 matches with a total 10,114 pinfall during the five-day tournament that concluded July 3. He beat runner-up Trey Brand of Battlefield, Missouri, by 165 pins.

The Firebirds "B" team rallied to win the deciding third game and a point as Kellenberg edged two-time defending champion St. Dominic, 5 points to 4, Tuesday at Farmingdale Lanes. Kellenberg's "A" team won all three games and got a fourth point for total pinfall.

Sachem North junior Anthony Naujokas is one of Long Island's top high school bowlers and headed to the state championships in Syracuse. But he may not be the best bowler in his family. His seventh-grade sister Amanda is also very good.

Midway through yesterday's tournament at Garden City Lanes, the scoreboard showed Soedarmasto in domination mode -- a 112-pin lead with three games to go. But he shrugged it off, refusing to let the moment get the better of him.

Lopera leads Long Island girls with a 229.56 average, more than five pins better than the single-season record of 223.52, set last year by Middle Country's Kelly Skalacki. Zimmerman, who has a LI-best 246.62 average, is on pace to break the boys mark of 244 set by Plainview JFK's Matt Farber in 2012.

All of Long Island would be proud of the way Klein and his Suffolk teammates, as well as the bowlers from Nassau, performed. The sections finished 1-2 overall in pin totals: Suffolk with 6,069 and Nassau at 6,023.

That trip to the state tournament as seventh-graders, qualifying for the six-person All-Star team, was only the beginning. They did that three years in a row. And the three years that followed, a dynasty, as the Indians enjoyed undefeated regular seasons, capped with Nassau championships.

Last year, the first look most people got of Division bowling was on the leader board at the county finals. The defending county champions and former underdogs don't have the benefit of anonymity this time around, and that's absolutely fine with them.

As usual, Sewanhaka District was well-represented at the state bowling tournament. As usual, the hip-hop music was blaring from their hotel rooms (perhaps loud enough to be heard halfway back to Long Island).